It's Douglas County. Confederate flags are a common sight out that way—thousands of miles away from the actual former Confederacy. Southern Oregon feels like a totally different country from Portland.

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I used to be a manufacturing shift foreman in Grants Pass. Had to fire 5 people on my crew for handing out neo-nazi magazines in the parking lot before a shift.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

it was illegal for black people to live in Oregon until 1926

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

rural pnw is viciously racist. it's where many of the confederates went after the civil war because they could not tolerate living among black people without racialized slavery.

oregon's history, in particular, is as deeply racist as it is hidden from the incurious https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2020/06/oregons-founders-sought-a-white-utopia-a-stain-of-racism-that-lives-on-even-as-state-celebrates-its-progressivism.html

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

we should dress up as union soldiers and burn down their houses and shoot them

[–] microfiche@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

Unlimited genocide on white Oregonian men.

[–] dat_math@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does he not know he could just join ICE?

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

Probably accepted his loser ass on the spot but told him he'd need 3 whole days of training and he just couldn't wait any longer

[–] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

he probably can't pass even the nerfed "fitness test"

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

AWBCAB

All Wannabe Be Cops Are Bastards

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

being investigated for bias crimes

Bias crimes? Is that what we're calling it now?

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's an Oregon thing. - https://hexbear.net/comment/6884609

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Feels like it softens the crime.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about it. My wild guess is that progressives wrote the law so it can be more inclusive and it's easier to charge people. If my wild assumption is right - I assume the punishments are weak.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I said this in another comment but I'll say it here too: It makes me feel less safe having people soften the language. I do not trust the people that came up with this at all, they wanted to soften the language and used some fringe situations where the language doesn't apply as a means of softening the language for ALL situations under the guise of broadening or "including" other things.

[–] built_on_hope@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it also feeds into the chud narrative “they’re criminalising everything that’s not woke” (à la Peterson and claiming that using incorrect pronouns would land you in jail)

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah there's just no need to soften the language for the existing things when you can give a new word to the things that don't fit into it.

The only reason to include them is to deliberately soften the existing language. It's deeply sus behaviour and I don't trust the people that did it. I categorically oppose soften the description of hate crimes.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Be a real shame is someone shot this dullard cracker right in his pie-hole for trying to abudct them.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

tf is a "bias crime"? that journo speak for hate crime?

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's an Oregon thing.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So yeah it's literally a word to replace "hate".

I don't like it.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

for legalism i don't mind the terminology being broader. things besides hate could be motivating; or offenders could credibly deny hating, like a chaser, while being incredibly racist or -phobic.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It makes me feel less safe having people soften the language. Those other cases should get their own word and hate crimes should be left alone. I do not trust the people that came up with this at all, they wanted to soften the language and used some fringe situations where the language doesn't apply as a means of softening the language for ALL situations.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 month ago

Golly that is one salted cracker